Bill Topic: Education
1. Be it enacted by the Members of the McG Model Congress
2. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3. Section 1: Title
4. In My Backyard 5. Section 2: FINDING:
6. Children are traveling on busses for hours to school and back home every day.
7. Having children go to school far away from their home takes away from their
8. community, and makes it harder for parental involvement.
9. If children were given the option to go to their neighborhood school this would allow
10. more money to go to the kid’s education, instead of bussing.
11. In the year of 1971, there was a court order to enforce desegregation bussing to help
12. make schools more diverse.
13. Although this was a great idea in 1971, America has transformed as a country into
14. what we like to call a “melting pot” and diversity in our neighborhoods and schools
15. have improved since 1971. 16.Section 3: PURPOSEs
17. The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the local communities by ending the process
18. of forced bussing and keeping children in schools in their backyard. 19.STEP 4: ELIGIBILITY
20. Students that are being forced to go to schools not in their neighborhood will have the
21. option to choose their school
22. Parents will be able to be more involved in school activities and their child’s lives at
23. school
24. Students will have more time for after school activities and homework, and not as
25. much time on the busses.
26. More money will go to schools and education, as opposed to bussing and gas for
27. busses 28.STEP 5: TERMS AND BENEFITS
29. Desegregation bussing will cease only in neighborhoods where the diversity of the
30. school will only be altered by 2-3%
31. in doing that, the schools will stay diverse and desegregation bussing will not be
32. required
33. Schools that’s diversity is altered by more than 2-3% if the forced bussing is stopped,
34. will keep the desegregation bussing until diversity is not and issue in those 35. neighborhoods anymore. 36.STEP 6: ADMINISTRATION:
37. All administrators will oversee schools that forced bussing stops in to make sure
38. that diversity is not an issue in those neighborhoods anymore.
39. If diversity is still a problem in a neighborhood, administrators will make sure
40. that desegregation bussing is funded, and allowed.
41. School board representatives in districts states around the country
42. State government
43. Congress
Senator Kovach and Senator Smith
Bill Topic: Education
1. Be it enacted by the Members of the McG Model Congress
2. of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3. Section 1: Title
4. In My Backyard
5. Section 2: FINDING:
6. Children are traveling on busses for hours to school and back home every day.
7. Having children go to school far away from their home takes away from their
8. community, and makes it harder for parental involvement.
9. If children were given the option to go to their neighborhood school this would allow
10. more money to go to the kid’s education, instead of bussing.
11. In the year of 1971, there was a court order to enforce desegregation bussing to help
12. make schools more diverse.
13. Although this was a great idea in 1971, America has transformed as a country into
14. what we like to call a “melting pot” and diversity in our neighborhoods and schools
15. have improved since 1971.
16. Section 3: PURPOSEs
17. The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the local communities by ending the process
18. of forced bussing and keeping children in schools in their backyard.
19. STEP 4: ELIGIBILITY
20. Students that are being forced to go to schools not in their neighborhood will have the
21. option to choose their school
22. Parents will be able to be more involved in school activities and their child’s lives at
23. school
24. Students will have more time for after school activities and homework, and not as
25. much time on the busses.
26. More money will go to schools and education, as opposed to bussing and gas for
27. busses
28. STEP 5: TERMS AND BENEFITS
29. Desegregation bussing will cease only in neighborhoods where the diversity of the
30. school will only be altered by 2-3%
31. in doing that, the schools will stay diverse and desegregation bussing will not be
32. required
33. Schools that’s diversity is altered by more than 2-3% if the forced bussing is stopped,
34. will keep the desegregation bussing until diversity is not and issue in those
35. neighborhoods anymore.
36. STEP 6: ADMINISTRATION:
37. All administrators will oversee schools that forced bussing stops in to make sure
38. that diversity is not an issue in those neighborhoods anymore.
39. If diversity is still a problem in a neighborhood, administrators will make sure
40. that desegregation bussing is funded, and allowed.
41. School board representatives in districts states around the country
42. State government
43. Congress
Bill Resources:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120400370.html